ACM
Programming Languages
Computer Hardware
Famous Computer Scientists
Video Games
200
What ACM stands for
What is Association for Computing Machinery?
200
In SQL, this command is used to retrieve columns from a database table
What is SELECT?
200
This expansion component renders graphics and video for games and 3D applications.
What is a Graphics Processing Unit?
200
This 19th-century inventor designed the Analytical Engine, a mechanical computer that laid the groundwork for modern computing.
Who is Charles Babbage?
200
Final boss in Minecraft?
What is the Ender Dragon
400
Where ACM was founded
What is Columbia University?
400
Python was named after this British comedy group
What is Monty Python?
400
This large circuit board connects nearly every component in a computer, including the CPU, RAM, storage, and expansion cards.
What is the motherboard?
400
This U.S. Navy computer scientist helped develop the first compiler and popularized the story of the first literal “computer bug.”
Who is Grace Hopper?
400
This component of game design determine things like loot drops and critical hits in many RPGs
RNG
600
Year ACM was founded
What is 1947?
600
The first widely recognized(and used) programming language is _____, developed in 1957 by IBM for scientific and engineering calculations
What is Fortran?
600
This computer design uses a single bus system for data transfer. Instructions and data are stored in the same memory space. This was based off of a paper written in 1945
What is von Neumann architecture? (AKA Princeton architecture)
600
Often called the first computer programmer for writing an algorithm for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
600
This game engine developed by Epic Games powers games like Fortnite
What is Unreal Engine?
800
This prestigeous award often called the nobel prize of computing was named after this British mathematician who helped break WWII codes and laid foundations for computer science.
Who is Alan Turing?
800
Along with CSS and JavaScript, this language forms the core trio to build online websites
What is HTML?
800
Invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1964, this computer input device was originally made from wood and revolutionized how people interact with computers.
What is Computer Mouse
800
This Stanford professor wrote the famous multi-volume series The Art of Computer Programming, one of the most influential books in computer science. Also a turing award recipient
Who is Donald Knuth?
800
What was Mario's original job in Donky Kong (1981)
What is Carpenter?
1000
The Association for Computing Machinery publishes thousands of research papers through its online database. What is this database called?
What is ACM Digital Library?
1000
Name the language
What is Java?
1000
This tiny coin-sized battery on the motherboard keeps your system clock and BIOS settings saved when the computer is powered off.
What is CMOS battery?
1000
Turing Award winner who coined the term Artificial Intelligence
Who is John McCarthy?
1000
The industry that Nintendo started in before they started making video games
What are Hanafuda playing cards?